Reference: Course on Subject Clearing
Facsimiles or samskara’s corrupt one’s perception and the ability to reason. The remedy has been mindfulness since ancient times.
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Definition of MINDFULNESS
Mindfulness is a concept that was originally put forth by Buddha 2600 years ago. Buddha emphasized on seeing things as they are. He encouraged his disciples to question anything they were perplexed about regardless of how sacrosanct the subject was.
Mindfulness is basically the effort to separate perceptions from the corrupting influence of facsimiles. The facsimiles tend to corrupt perceptions by causing hallucinations which the person ends up justifying. Such justifications compromise the ability of the person to reason correctly.
By practicing mindfulness, the person is able to spot the justifications. He closely observes the environment and notices things that do not make sense. He then observes those things more closely. The person repeats this cycle until he is able to recognize the underlying facsimile and assimilates it fully.
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Misconceptions
1. In mindfulness there is no magic involved other than looking at a scene more and more closely until all its aspects start to make sense. The person uses mindfulness exercises to develop his own judgement about how long to keep looking and in what direction. He learns to appreciate the subtle fluctuations in his understanding at any point in time. He knows when there are no more anomalies in an area.
2. Scientology auditing supposedly accomplishes the same thing, by selectively putting a person’s attention on different aspects of life. The drawback in Scientology approach is that the person’s understanding, and his sense of clarity, is continually judged by an auditor through his use of an e-meter. This continually undermines the person’s own judgement. He may be required to keep on going with a process, even after the process has accomplished its purpose.
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